Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-19

Heaven that IL CANNOT hI Ue uS ulueANo
The Bible over and over again speaks Of
, the songs of Heaven. If Heaven had nc
songs Of its own q vast number OF these
of earth would have been taken up by the
earthly emigrants. Surely the Christian
at death does not lose his memory. Then
there must be millions of souls in Heaven
i. who know Coronation" and antioch,
and "Mount Pisgah." and cold Hundred.
The leader of the eternal orchestra neeG
only once tap his baton, and all Heaven
will be ready for the hallelujah.
Cannot the soul sing? How often VIC
compliment some exquisite singer by say
ing: "There was so much soul in he1
music" In Heaven it will be all soul UNI
til the body, after while, comes up in
the resurrection, and then there will be an
additional heaven. Cannot the soul hear:
If it can hear, then it can hear music. dc
not, therefore, let it be in your household,
when some member leaves for Heaven, as
it is in some households, that you close the
piano and unstring the harp for two years,
because the fingers that used to play on
them are still. You must remember that
they have better instruments of music
where they are.
You ask me: "Do they have real harps
and real trumpets and real organs?" do
not know. Some wiseacres say positively
there are no such things in Heaven. / do
not know; but should not be surprised if
the God who made all the mountains, and
all the hills, and all the forests, and all the
metals of the universe should not be
surprised if He could, if He had a mind to,
make few harps and trumpets and
organs.
I Grand old Haydn, sick and worn out,
was carried for the last time into the music
hall, and there he heard his own oratorio
of ".Ihe Creation" History says that as
the orchestra came to that famous passage,
"Let There be Light" the whole audience
rose and cheered, and Haydn waved his
hand toward Heaven and said: at comes
from there" Overwhelmed with his own
music, he was carried out in his chair, and
as he came to the door he spread his hand
toward the orchestra as in benediction.
Haydn was right when he waved his hand
toward Heaven and said: "It comes from
there"
Music was born in Heaven and it will
ever have its highest throne in Heaven; and
I want you to understand that our departed
friends who were passionately fond OF
music here, are now Mt the headquarters OF
harmony. l think that the grand ole
church tunes that died when your grand.
fathers died have gone with them to
Heaven.
Again, 1 remark that those of our de.
parted Christian friends who in this world
had very strong military spirit are now il
armies celestial and out on bloodless battle
There are hundreds of people born sol.
diers. They cannot help it. They be.
long to regiments in time of peace. They
cannot hear drum or fife without trying
to keep step to the music. They are Chris
tians, and when they fight they fight on tn
right side. Now when these, our Christian
friends who had natural and powerful
military spirit, entered HEAVIER, they entered
the celestial army.
The door of Heaven hardly opens but 20,
cried out: "The chariots of God are co.,
000." Elisha saw the mountains filed will
celestial cavalry. st. John said: eth
; armies which are in Heaven followed hin
on white horses" Now, when those VIII,
had the military spirit on earth santifet
entered glory, suppose they right ava.
enlisted in some heavenly campaign-the.
volunteered right away. There must need
be in Heaven soldiers with q soldierly spirit
There are grand parade days when the kim
reviews the troops. There must be arme,
escort sent out TO bring up from earth K
Heaven those who were more than con
querors. There must be crusndes ever bein,
fitted out for some part of Gods domin
ion-battles, bloodless, -groanless, pain
less. Angels of evil to be fought dow
and fought back Other rebellious world
|. to be conquered. Worlds to be put to tn
torch. Worlds to be saved. World
to be demolished. Worlds t,
be sunk. Worlds to be hoisted
Beside that, in our own world there ar
battles for the right and against the wrong
where We must have the heavenly military
That is what keeps US Christian reformer
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many bad men, 30 few churches against 81
many grog shops, SO few pure printing
presses against SO many polluted printing
presses, and yet we are buoyant ant
courageous, because while we know tina
the armies of evil in the world are large
in numbers than the army If the truth
there are celestial cohorts in the dir fight
ing on our side.
have not 80 much faith in the army OF
the ground us have in the army in the air
o, Cod! open our eyes that we may Sc
them. The military spirits that went VI
from earth to join the military spirits be
fore the throne-Joshua and Caleb an,
Gideon and David and Samson and tn.
hundreds of Christian warriors who OF
earth fought with feshly arm, and nov
having gone up on high are coming dow
the hills of Heaven ready to fight among
the invisibles. Wonder they are-comin g
coming. Did you not hear them as the.
swept by?
But what are our mathematical friends I,
do in the next world? They found thei
Joy and delight in mathematics. Their,
was more poetry for them in Euclid thar
in John Milton. They were rs passion
ately fond of mathematics as Plato, whit
wrote over his door: "Let no one ente
here who is not acquainted with geometry.
} What are they doing now? They are bus,
with figures yet. No place in oil the uni.
verse like Heaven for figures. Number
infinite, distances infinite, calculations in
finite. The didactic DIR. Dick said he reall,
thought that the redeemed in Heaven
spent some of their time with the higher
branches of mathematics.
Some of our transferred and Transported
) metaphysicisns-wheta are they doing now
> Studing the human mind, only under bet
ter circumstances than they used TO stud,
: it. They used to study the mind sheathct
in the dull human body. Now the spiri
, unsheathed-now they are studying III,
sword outside the scabbard. Have yo,
any doubt about what Sir William Hamil
5 ton is doing in Heaven, or what Jonatha,
Edwards is doing in Heaven, or the multi
, tnde on earth who had passion for meta
) physics sanctified by the grace of God